Cairo, Egypt, 4 February 2025: The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and African Union Development Agency – New Partnership for Africa’s Development (AUDA-NEPAD) are proud to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) among Africa’s WHO Maturity Level 3...
Pretoria - The leading agencies, the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) and the National Department of Health (NDoH) with identified key stakeholders for the National Action Plan (NAP) are in a three-day workshop this week (4-6 February 2025) to pilot the World Health...
Pretoria, 07 November 2024 – The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) encourages members of the public to always report any suspected side effects they may experience from taking medicines, vaccines and/or using medical devices, to help make medicines safer for everyone. While humanity...
The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA), in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), recently hosted a webinar to introduce the WHO Pilot on the Implementation of the National Action Plan for combating substandard and falsified (SF) medical products in South Africa. The event...
This workshop will provide an exchange of information and capacity building between the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority, SAPHRA and partner reference NRAs including the WHO, USFDA, TGA, HSA, ANVISA, covering the core international references for medical device regulatory. The workshop objective is to...
Pretoria, 15 May 2023 -The South Africa Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) acknowledges and aligns itself to the statement issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, declaring an end to the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) for the disease caused by the...
Pretoria, 23 February 2023 - The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) hosted the Regional Quality Management Systems (QMS) Technical Working Group Workshop during 20 - 23 February 2023 at Protea Hotel – OR Tambo Airport. The participating countries included: Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho,...
The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) hosted a conversation on our recent accolade of attaining the World Health Organisation (WHO) Maturity Level 3 (ML3) for vaccine production. We had invited some of our Executives, CEO Dr. Boitumelo Semete-Makokotlela, CRO Portia Nkambule, and COO Christelna...
Pretoria, 10 October 2022 – The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA), like other regulators globally, has been alerted to dubious health products being traded by an Indian company, Maiden Pharmaceuticals. The products as they appear on the World Health Organisation (WHO) product list (Medical...
Pretoria, 5 October 2022 - The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) has recently been ranked by the World Health Organisation (WHO) at a functional level of maturity (Level 3) according to WHO’s global classification system for national medical products regulatory authorities. This means...
